I hate it when this happens.

Foo3112

When your on eBay looking for that 1 card in that 1 specific grade and you never seem to find it after weeks or months of searching. Then you take a break from and when you finally decide to start looking again after a couple of weeks, you come across one that meets your standards all across the board - only to find - that it was just sold either the same day or the day before. Feels like this happens pretty frequent with me. Ughh the torture.

ClockworkAngel

Are you referring to the always difficult 1988 Donruss Roberto Alomar graded PSA 8?

captainthreeputt

I hate that as well, but more often I am looking for an extemely hard card to find for months if not years. I finally end up paying too much for a BIN, and then in the next three months, two or three go cheap at auction.

vettfanatic

Yes this seems to happen to me also. On the other hand though I wonder how often I buy a card that someone else has been waiting for a long time.

Jeff

OAKESY25

save the search and have ebay email you when there is a hit?

JoeBanzai

How about when someone lists your super hard to find item in high grade as a BIN in the middle of the night. You wake up in the morning (begging for breakfast.........no wait) and see that while you were sleeping someone else bought it for half of what you were willing to pay!!!!!!

BostonAmericans

This one time...I accidentally took my 14" scale model of the Empire State Building and shoved it up my nose, and then I found one of those...oh whatchacallits...16oz Ball Peen Hammer and started whacking on it.....oh man...I hate it when that happens


(Sorry - couldn't resist)

nightcrawler

<< <i>save the search and have ebay email you when there is a hit? >>



I was looking for a rare motorcycle part for almost three years with a saved search. And I didn't miss it when it came up for auction. The saved search is the way to go.

georgebailey2

<< <i>This one time...I accidentally took my 14" scale model of the Empire State Building and shoved it up my nose, and then I found one of those...oh whatchacallits...16oz Ball Peen Hammer and started whacking on it.....oh man...I hate it when that happens


(Sorry - couldn't resist) >>



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